All Episodes
Previous Next
Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
11:29
How These Young People Escaped Radical Leftist Ideology | Larry Elder
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Well, this young man got off to a good start, didn't he?
Intact family?
Christian?
In my life, I was predominantly raised in a Christian Centric household, meaning that my family wasn't really Christian, but they did hold a lot of Christian beliefs.
I mainly grew up with my mother and my siblings.
My dad was in and out of my life, but even in times we didn't catch up, my dad did lean more towards the pro-black, kind of anti-white establishment.
I come from a Caribbean household, and my dad, he's not necessarily a Rastafarian, but he does lean towards more of the Rastafarian kind of Pro-black, like, white people are the devil, black people are oppressed, you know, kind of mindset.
And my mom was kind of like, my mom was kind of indifferent, you know.
I didn't really get into politics or topics like that with my mother.
But over time, he began to adopt that standard narrative.
Democrats, good, or at least better than Republicans, Republicans, bad.
I used to think, like, basically, the Republican Party was a party that did hold traditional values, but We're more for the rich or they only looked out for themselves.
Well, I felt like the Democratic Party was morally failing, but they actually cared about everybody.
You know, they cared about minorities and oppressed people or what have you.
He graduates from high school, goes to college, but little by little becomes what I call a victocrat.
Starts blaming other people for his problems.
Starts blaming white people, starts hating white people.
But eventually, because it's being hammered in my head so much through my friends or just scrolling through social media that black people are oppressed, you know, Black Lives Matter, the white people are the devil, white privilege, the wage gap, all this kind of stuff, I slowly started hating white people.
And it was a very short time where I really hated Caucasians.
And growing up, I've never had any ill towards anybody.
I would say I'm the kind of person who's cool with everybody.
I don't care if you're white, black, Spanish, Asian, you're gay, you're atheist.
It doesn't matter to me.
If you're cool, I can get with you.
But because it was being preached so much about how evil white people are, I started hating white people.
Everywhere I would go, I would look at a white person, man, they have a good, man, they're such racist.
You know, you start assuming that every white person is racist or they don't like black people.
And it was to the point where, man, like, I was really hating white people.
LeBron James said something very similar about how he felt towards whites when he was growing up.
I was so institutionalized growing up in the hood.
It's like, they don't with us.
They don't want us to succeed.
The hierarchy, and then we're here.
Like, matter of fact, we're underneath this chair.
So I'm like, I'm going to this school to play ball, and that's it.
I mean, this young man really started hating white people.
Every day I was mad.
I had so much hatred building in my heart, and I felt miserable.
You know, and...
It's not until I sought help from my pastor, a pastor who is black, bring some clarity.
And, you know, he basically said, you know, that you can't make it in this life, especially in America, without white people's help.
Meaning, basically, like, somewhere down the road, a white person is going to help you somewhere, somehow, in America.
Or, you know, you just can't hate people because, I mean, God made everyone equal.
And, um...
You know, it doesn't matter if you're white, black, or Spanish, whatever.
Like, we're all created equal.
You know, and every race has done their fair share of injustices in the world.
But then he started watching videos made by conservatives like Ben Shapiro and yours truly and began to change his mind.
After seeing all the videos from Ben Shapiro, you know, that kind of just opened my eyes and I just agreed with a lot of what he was saying about the victim mentality that's being preached, how the Democratic Party's corrupt, that they're the actual racists and everything like that.
And then eventually from watching Ben Shapiro, that led me to other freethinkers slash conservatives like Dave Rubin I love, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Jordan Peterson, you know, and another YouTuber I watched.
His name is TheAmazingLucas.
I like his videos as well.
So that just kind of led me to really...
Now, I received this phone call from a Nigerian young woman who said she went to college in America.
But something very interesting happened.
Adobe, how are you?
Fine, thank you, Larry.
Such a pleasure to speak with you.
You have no idea.
Well, I don't get very many phone calls from Germany, Adobe, so I'm just delightful to hear from you.
Thank you.
I mean, I'm a bit of, I think, a nomad because I lived in the U.S. for five years.
I actually went to school there for five years, but I'm Nigerian by nationality.
And I found your show, I think, like two years ago or something.
After leaving in the U.S., For, I think, four and a half years.
I went there to get an education, but I got, of course, like most people, I got so into the liberal, leftist, far-left ideology that I kept, like, changing my majors.
And one time, I think when I turned 20, I changed my major from computer science or something to, like, feminist philosophy or something.
And so my parents...
A lot of jobs for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My parents are born-bred Nigerians.
They live in Nigeria.
They did the craziest thing that I think I had ever gone through in my adult life, but I think it's the thing that changed my life because I went home for the holidays, or so I thought, and when I got home, they were like, this is my passport, and they're like, you're not going back because you're crazy.
That literally was my breaking point because I had gone to Nigeria just for holidays and they were like, no, you're not going back.
And I think that was the time that my, I think for the first one year or year and a half, I was really horrible.
I hated them.
I was angry.
I was miserable.
But I started to like look at the culture from the outside in because when I look back at my time in the U.S., I can't really pinpoint a time that I had all these crazy views.
Like I don't know I can't explain a switch.
It just happened very gradually.
And all of a sudden, I had all this, you know, typical leftist, like, talking points.
But as I started to look from the culture, because honestly, my experience in America was amazing.
Like, I lived in...
I first lived in New York for two and a half years, and I moved to Texas.
I did my community college in New York, and I went to the...
I went to Texas to do my...
The rest of my program.
And honestly, I loved it there.
You know, you always hear texts as racist white people.
I mean, I read that I was supposed to think that, but personally speaking, it never happened to me.
I felt safer there than I did in New York.
But I don't know, for some reason, I just believed it because, I don't know, I can't explain it.
But anyway, I think for me, I started to kind of like Like I said, see from the outside in, why is this culture like this?
And I found you, I think, on YouTube, I think about two years ago.
I've been listening to you since then.
And because of you, I found people like Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, and a host of other prominent Black conservatives.
And when I look back at my time, I paid...
Tens of thousands of dollars to go to school in the U.S. But I feel cheated out of it because I thought college was supposed to show you both sides and then you pick.
But, you know, now that I think back, I mean, even after watching Uncle Tom, I watched Uncle Tom last week and I just was like, wow, why didn't I know this when I was in America?
Adobe, when you went back to Nigeria, did your parents take your passport because they felt that you were studying foolish things and they felt they were wasting their money?
Yes, and also I had kind of like come up with this, you know, radical leftist feminist ideology.
I had told them I didn't believe in God and all that stuff.
So yeah, the main reason why they did that was because they're like, you're wasting our money.
You're never going to graduate if you keep doing this.
We didn't send you to America for you to come home as a victim.
That's how your parents felt.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I was 20 and I was miserable.
I was 21 and miserable, but it changed my life.
It did.
I looked at the culture from the outside and I was like, something is wrong.
Something is wrong.
And because of that, I'm back in school again.
I came to Germany by myself.
My parents don't take care of me.
I go to school.
I'm about to graduate, finally, with my degree because I ended up not finishing in the U.S. I take responsibility because, of course, like you said, it's so funny because when I moved back home for the first one year, I blamed my parents for bringing me back.
I never even thought that it was my fault.
It was the choices I made that took me back.
I was so, you know, deep into this victim.
Oh, I'm a victim.
You know, my parents hate me.
The world hates me.
Everyone hates me.
But going back home and also finding God again, I became a Christian.
I started to take responsibility for, because I think what a lot of people, what a lot of liberals try to do is they try to create a very unrealistic focus of control.
So you want to control everyone else, but you can't really control people.
You have to control yourself, like how you react to the world around you.
The world is tough.
Absolutely.
Black Harvard sociology professor Orlando Patterson said way back in the 90s, That America, despite its flaws, is now the least racist majority white society in the world, provides more opportunities for blacks than any other country in the world, including all of those of Africa.
And, by the way, if black America were a separate country, its collective GDP would make it the 15th or 16th wealthiest country in the world.
And economist Walter Williams says, Black people in America have come further ahead, from further behind, than any other people in the history of the world.
So, the Civil Rights War has been won.
The good guys won.
Let's convert the troops to civilian duty, shall we?
Now, be sure and check out my film, Uncle Tom.
It's available on UncleTom.com.
I am Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
▲
Export Selection